Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keen to integrate the building into everyday life , he has made a diagonal route through it to encourage its use as a short-cut , and has redesigned the square outside , down to recreating the original pattern of Roman paving . |
| 2 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 3 | The Iranian government had given permission for it to land , the first time that landing rights had been given to US government aircraft in Iran since the revolution of 1979 . |
| 4 | Whether school RE reflects the obvious case for it depends upon the openness with which it is approached and the style of teaching adopted . |
| 5 | He has persuaded the new Armed Forces minister , Jeremy Hanley , to see a delegation next week to hear Chester 's case for it to have the new centralised pay and personnel centre . |
| 6 | If the time is to be extended , then the case for it has to be made again , and to take changed circumstances into account . |
| 7 | Or damaged goods can , you know , put the foot through it to get the insurance cover on what we pay and we 're liable . |
| 8 | There is no provision for it to order a payment on account of costs . |
| 9 | We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take . |
| 10 | This was a shrewd move on his part for it meant that he not only had the blessing , and guidance , of the College , but also avoided their censure . |
| 11 | Maybe this song will catch on , but I think Deano needs to buck up a bit for it to get sung some more . |
| 12 | I made a tiny human skeleton with the bones of the dead fish and distributed a little ketchup about it to make it more realistic . |
| 13 | Kong and Kosko write that the learning algorithm for it did not always converge , and the resulting system did not always back the truck up smoothly . |
| 14 | And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1 |
| 15 | Enthusiasm for it tends to wane during economic recessions . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function . |
| 17 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 18 | Some essential honesty about it brings it back from the brink . |
| 19 | Not every Zionist or Palestinian needs to be a fervent believer in this kind of credo for it to have a force and tenacity which can not be ignored . |
| 20 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 21 | It was a biting cold that almost turned the pleasure of the riding into a chore , or a want for it to end . |
| 22 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 23 | Although a government which enjoys the confidence of a comfortable majority of Members of the House of Commons is very unlikely to encounter any difficulty in securing such sanction , the necessity for it remains the ultimate weapon in the hands of the House . |
| 24 | If a bank was in such a position that it was to end , what is the necessity for it to go on ? |
| 25 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 26 | A new Church of England Church had also been erected at the southern end of Sutton Lane , and was named St. Michael 's as the money for it had been realised by the sale of St. Michael 's Church in Burleigh Street , London , which had been associated with St. Martins-in-the-Fields . |
| 27 | Is not it a disgrace , however , that the concierge service has been developed entirely out of Glasgow district council resources and that no money for it has come from the Scottish Office ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’ |
| 29 | Philip of Swabia was already excommunicate at the opening of the contest over the empire — excommunicated by the late Pope Celestine III — and the fact of his excommunication was to act as a severe encumbrance for it meant not only that the excommunicant was without the sacraments of the Church , it also affected dependants and those who had dealings with him . |
| 30 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |